Mondays can be tough sometimes. They can can also be a fresh start at the week. As such, I thought it would be good to meditate a bit on spiritual disciplines or habits. For some reason disciplines are often confused with legalism or guilt-driven duty. I love Dallas Willard's description of spiritual disciplines. He says, "A discipline for the spiritual life is, when the dust of history is blown away, nothing but an activity undertaken to bring us into more effective cooperation with Christ and his Kingdom. When we understand that grace (charis) is gift (charisma), we then see that to grow in grace is to grow in what is given to us of God and by God. The disciplines are then in the clearest sense, a means to that grace and also to those gifts (Spirit of the Disciplines, 156)."
1.04.2010
Monday Spirituality
Mondays can be tough sometimes. They can can also be a fresh start at the week. As such, I thought it would be good to meditate a bit on spiritual disciplines or habits. For some reason disciplines are often confused with legalism or guilt-driven duty. I love Dallas Willard's description of spiritual disciplines. He says, "A discipline for the spiritual life is, when the dust of history is blown away, nothing but an activity undertaken to bring us into more effective cooperation with Christ and his Kingdom. When we understand that grace (charis) is gift (charisma), we then see that to grow in grace is to grow in what is given to us of God and by God. The disciplines are then in the clearest sense, a means to that grace and also to those gifts (Spirit of the Disciplines, 156)."
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